Klaus Kinski Quotes

I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.

Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of an idiot.

The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.

In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.

The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this.

Fun? There is no fun.

Slavery is an element of the human heart ... to our ruin.

But words - words are not enough!

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.

I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.

I didn't choose solitude.

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

I make movies for money, exclusively for money.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

I am dying of hunger.

I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better ... that's for certain.